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Originally Posted by sixsax
Actually it's quite possible that they can. A new agreement has recently been signed by a lot of European countries along with the US, allowing governments to ignore jurisdiction when fighting online crime - including spam.
conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/Treaties/Html/185.htm (copy/paste it - no URLs allowed for the new kid)
It looks like Sweden signed it as well.
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The Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime is not law - it's a working document and likely be many years before elements may or may not be implemented by participating countries. A crime can only be a crime if it holds that status within a country - else there is no basis for other elements such as extradition.
Basically it covers existing offenses where there already is international cooperation between law enforcement (has existed since around the 50's), tho these are mainly more serious offenses.
Spam is well down the list of concerns
